Chapter X

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

Having no one else present.

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

The powdery residue left after the burning of a substance.

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

not in a state of sleep; completely conscious

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

plural of “battlement” — a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

plural of “bear” — massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

propose a payment

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

(used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a natural or artificial enclosed space

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

plural of “cheek” — either side of the face below the eyes

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

censure severely or angrily

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

permission to do something

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

continue a certain state, condition, or activity

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

(United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

third-person singular of “crave” — have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

a female human offspring

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

inflected form of “distil” — undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

the state of being unsure of something

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

take in liquids

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

half asleep

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

putting a condemned person to death

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

opinion or judgment

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

descend in free fall under the influence of gravity

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

being ten more than thirty

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium

From this reading _Fr.

the sixth day of the week; the fifth working day

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

death of a person

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

an old form of “have”, used with “thou”

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

perceive (sound) via the auditory sense

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

prevent from being seen or discovered

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

where you live at a particular time

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a specific instance of feeling hopeful

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

a period of time assigned for work

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

has a good chance of being the case or of coming about

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

plural of “lip” — either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

be an inhabitant of or reside in

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

take in marriage

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a public toilet for men

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

full of or showing high-spirited merriment

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

newly made

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

happening every night

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

not any; not one

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

something determined in relation to something that includes it

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

in the near future

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

keep from happening or arising; make impossible

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

gradual improvement or growth or development

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

to a degree (not used with a negative)

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

on the contrary

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

a deep prolonged loud noise

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

plural of “rose” — any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

plural of “serpent” — limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an old form of “shall”, used with “thou”

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

plural of “shank” — a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

cover as if with a shroud

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

inflected form of “shrink” — wither, as with a loss of moisture

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

third-person singular of “shut” — move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

plural of “skull” — the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

kill intentionally and with premeditation

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

catch sight of

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

not moving or operating freely

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the property of being physically or mentally strong

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a stopping

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

carry out

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

give testimony in a court of law

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

an old word for “you”, as the object, speaking to one person

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

given to thievery

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a special situation

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an old word for “your”, speaking to one person

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

inflected form of “tell” — express in words

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

enter upon an activity or enterprise

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

plural of “vein” — a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the act of traveling by foot

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the sensation caused by heat energy

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

the fourth day of the week; the third working day

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

at the time that

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

in or at the place that

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

an old form of “will”, used with “thou”

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

(trademark) an operating system with a graphical user interface

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

in the company of; together with

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

distant but within sight (“yon” is dialectal)

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.